Feb03 Exercise (CRCB C5, Main Ideas)

Learning Journal, P139
Without reading ahead, write down your definitions of the terms main idea, topic, details, major supporting details, and minor supporting details in your journal.

Main Idea: the major point the author makes about the topic.
Topic: a matter dealt with in a text, discourse, or conversation
Details: an individual feature
Major Supporting Details : supporting facts
Minor Supporting Details: descriptions

Exercise 5a, General and Specific Ideas,P141
Circle the most general item in each list. The first one is modeled for you.

1. Saab Audi Mustang cars
2. genetics DNA RNA
3. English history majors
4. gas matter solid liquid
5. Buddhism Sikhism religions Islam
6. control group variables research data

Exercise 5b, Identifying Topics, P142
For each list, think about what the separate items have in common and ask yourself, what is the general subject, or topic, of this list? The first one is modeled for you.

1. Topic: holidays
Labor Day
Fourth of July
Memorial Day
Christmas

2. Topic: Authors
Langston Hughes
Emily Dickinson
T.S. Eliot
Walt Whitman

3. Topic: Puzzles
crossword
riddles
jigsaw
conundrum

4. Topic: health
calories
carbohydrates
fat
protein

5. Topic: Resume
name
education
employment experience
references

6. Topic: Teeth
gingivitis
tarter
periodontal disease
plaque